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Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.

-- Thomas Carlyle

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I was checking this girl next door When her parents went out She phoned said hey boy, come on right around So I knock at the door You was standing with a bottle of red wine Ready to pour Dressed in long black Satin and Lace to the floor

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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

-- Marianne Moore

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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

-- Disraeli, Benjamin

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Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

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If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

-- Ilyas Kassam

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When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

-- Stephen Richards

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You should not be upset by the sight of wisdom being criticized. Wisdom would not be wisdom if it did not reveal the stupidity of a bad life, and people would not be people if they endured this revelation without criticism.

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As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

-- Kenzaburo Oe

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It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.

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